Hans Moltkau

Hans Moltkau (born July 30, 1911 in Magdeburg ; † May 24, 1994 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German conductor and composer .

Life

Moltkau received piano lessons from the age of five ; later he also learned the cello . He attended a humanistic high school in his hometown.

After graduating from high school (1929), he began studying at the Berlin University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg . His teachers there included Emanuel Feuermann (cello), Enrico Mainardi (cello), Curt Sachs (instrumentation, church and school music) and Paul Juon (composition). From 1930 to 1933 he studied school music at the Cologne University of Music ; there were Felix Oberborbeck (school music), Heinrich Lemacher (composition, theory and music history) and Walter Braunfels (composition) his teachers. At the same time, Moltkau studied history and philosophy at the University of Cologne . Further studies in conducting followed in 1933; again at the Berlin University of Music. In 1933 Moltkau passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools; The Kapellmeister exam followed in 1934 .

He received his first theater engagement in 1934 as Kapellmeister and solo coach at the Stadttheater Saarbrücken . He had other engagements at the Oldenburg State Theater (from 1936, as opera and operetta conductor ), at the Plauen City Theater (from 1937, as first conductor and spa conductor in Bad Elster ) and at the Innsbruck State Theater (from 1941, as first conductor). From 1943 Moltkau was called up for military service.

From 1945 to 1959 - until it was dissolved in 1959 - he was director of the Vorarlberg Radio Orchestra, which he co-founded and based in Dornbirn . Moltkau conducted operas with the Vorarlberger Funkorchester , the classical symphonic works of music literature, but also works and world premieres by contemporary composers. In 1946 he was a co-founder of the Bregenz Festival . From 1948 to 1958, Moltkau was responsible for the serenade concerts in the historic Bregenz Upper Town as part of the Bregenz Festival; he conducted almost all of these concerts himself. As a guest he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria , the Stuttgart Philharmonic and numerous other radio orchestras.

In 1960 Moltkau became a program designer and conductor at Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich . There he mainly recorded operettas . In November 1962, Moltkau conducted numerous operetta recordings there, which were recorded for EMI with Fritz Wunderlich and the Bavarian State Orchestra . Recordings of songs from the operettas The Great Sinner , The Circus Princess , Countess Mariza , Giuditta and The Rose of Stambul were made . From 1963 to 1971 he was editor and head of the music department of ZDF in Mainz .

Moltkau emerged as a composer with songs and sophisticated light music for orchestra; his most famous song is mother, thank you .

In 1982 he was awarded the Great Merit of the State of Vorarlberg . Hans Moltkau's estate is kept in the Feldkirch City Library.

literature

• Edgar Schmidt: An era of domestic music creation . In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten from 3./4. June 1995.
• Matthias Podgornik: The Vorarlberger Funkorchester in Studio Dornbirn under the direction of Hans Moltkau . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2003, OBV .

Web links

• Works by and about Hans Moltkau in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Moltkau (CV)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans Moltkau Vita (Feldkirch City Library)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} 10th anniversary of Hans Moltkau's death Press release by the Austria Press Agency on May 13, 2004
3. ↑ ^{a b} Vorarlberger Funkorchester ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Lexicon Dornbirn ; accessed on January 21, 2014 
4. ^ Estate of Hans Moltkau , Austrian Library Association.